Sentences with phrase «from public functions»

Despite the President's absence from public functions, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru; and the Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, all said they held meetings separately with him this week.

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«However, using the rules as reference points and discussing why our policy may differ from these policy descriptions could go some way in helping to explain our own policy reaction function to the public.»

There are still some functions available from the old platform, however, such as the ability to read public media on behalf of a user or to read a user's own media statistics, although the number of requests (the number of times your app accesses Instagram's data, useful for real - time updates) has been reduced to 200 from 5,000.

Green finance projects are selected using MuniFin's Green Framework and finally approved by the Green Evaluation Team, which consists of two or more members from environmental functions of MuniFin's customers or other environmental public sector entities or organisations.

While it is not within the province of government to determine who is religious and who is not, nor to discriminate between the different forms of religion, irreligion, and idolatry, except where public security is at stake, it is the function of the democratic state to persuade and encourage its citizens toward religious faith and away from irreligion and idolatry.

The separation of church and state has to exist, but look how angry everyone becomes, when prayer and other religious symbols are removed from public displays and functions?

At this point in my life, I am so convinced of the tenderness of the Father's heart that in those times when a public «word» is given from a person who understands the function of these gifts in the body of Christ, edification will be the aim.

The most intimate aspects of our lives, in particular our sexual and religious feelings, need to be shielded from the objectifying and trivializing gaze of the public, and so shame can provide a sort of protective function.

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

While I don't know that Scripture exactly says that the primary purpose of baptism is public declaration or public witness of our faith in Jesus / desire to follow Jesus, it does appear from early accounts of baptisms that they definitely functioned in that way.

He has been reproached by sociologists for believing in the omnipotence of the scholarly analyst of the laboratory without ever having used the laboratory, and for explaining events as the function of «technical» expressions which hide reality from him in the same manner that the accounts of corporations are carefully edited and kept from the public by so - called «experts.»

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

The religious freedom resulting from this tolerance is real enough; what is unreal is the assumption that religious convictions that can not be acted on in public will nonetheless continue to function in private as if they could be.

And he's made strides in his overall functioning: Went from nonverbal and screaming at 2 to being potty trained at 3, learning to communicate better and coping well with different stimuli, and is going to a regular public school with a little support and doing relatively well, learning to read and write along with the other neurotypical kids.

But other common practices in southern Europe, like turning public office into a livelihood by living off public resources indefinitely, appointing incompetent people to public positions, or shamelessly benefiting from the undemocratic functioning of political parties, are cases of serious corruption too.

Is he scared, he will be found sleeping at functions or he's afraid the public will find something about he's been hiding from all of us now for some time,» he asks

«Given the important role public policies and services play in supporting individuals to make the most of their talents, we will consider legislating to make clear that tackling socio - economic disadvantage and narrowing gaps in outcomes for people from different backgrounds is a core function of public services,» the white paper stated.

The Mayor's proposal is straightforward: increase the income tax on people who can most easily bear it, and who benefit from the city's having a functioning public transit system whether or not they use it themselves.

Cuomo, of course, has gotten beaten up recently over being anything but transparent, from his use of PIN - to - PIN function on his Blackberry, eskewing emails and keeping some of his documents from his time as attorney general out of the public view.

«Whether or not public bodies move to shared services, they must know whether they are receiving value for money from their corporate functions.

Indeed, both the Constitution and the Convention require public officers to abstain from all acts that may compromise the exercise of their public office and functions, or are inconsistent with their entrusted positions.»

Justice Ademola was also said to have on January 5, 2015 in his capacity as a public servant «corruptly received from Joe Odey Agi a BMW Saloon 320i valued at N8, 500,000 through your son, Ademide Ademola, as gratification in the exercise of your of your official functions as the judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria».

«Any medical challenge that will prevent a public officer from performing his function should be checked because they are going there for a rigorous assignment and not pleasure.

Who snatched the microphone from the hands of a state governor at a public function?

The fact that these laws are signed by former governors in the exercise of their functions as public officials and now benefiting from the entitlements under such laws while serving as senators and ministers raise serious conflict of interest issue under paragraph 5 of article 8 of the convention.»

The preliminary plans for the placement and function of the gallery's long - planned expansion project, whose budget has nearly doubled from its original price tag of $ 80 million, are being announced by gallery officials in a public meeting in the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center on Wednesday.

«Granted that a major component of the oversight function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.

The rate at which patients only suffered minor losses in brain function or regained it fully increased from 4.9 to 6.1 percent at home and from 9.5 to 14.7 percent in public.

WITH video a virtually ubiquitous cellphone function, there are ever - fewer public events, from back - room gigs to street performances, that aren't filmed by multiple cellphones.

But the stunning success of the high - function toilet holds lessons for anyone — from public health officials to marketing experts — whose work involves understanding and changing human behaviour and decision making.

Some of the clearest evidence comes from the Cognitive Function and Aging Study (CFAS), led by Carol Brayne, professor of public health medicine at the University of Cambridge.

To examine the relationship between dietary intake of major sources of protein and kidney function, a team led by Woon - Puay Koh, MBBS (Hons), PhD (Duke - NUS Medical School and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in National University of Singapore) analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore.

The PPPL function that reaches out to students, teachers and the general public through programs ranging from student internships to weekly talks on scientific topics from January through April.

In Emory's Department of Pharmacology, the Traynelis and Yuan labs have been harvesting the vast amounts of information now available from public genome databases, to better understand how changes in the NMDA receptor genes relate to function.

It takes effort to find the functioning components, but it's critical, because we have to build from what's working, and it's those spots that motivate and inspire and energize and remind me that we can transform public schools.

Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

NASA benefits from the hard work the students put into creating detailed plans for ways to evaluate NASA's educational and public outreach offerings, and the students benefit from communicating with a high - level organization about how such an organization functions.

It is not only the regulatory environment that founders must directly challenge, but the entire sweep of policies, practices, and pedagogies, from federal law to local union contracts, from teacher preparation programs to the design of mainstream textbooks, that together define how most public schools today function.

Yet, as the same local paper reported, proposals for «boutique» schools «spark resentment from parents who say the specialty schools will drain dwindling public funds from well - functioning school districts.»

What happens when public schools are set free to innovate and function independently from other schools in their jurisdiction?

Privatizing an essential public function and forcing the public to pay for it, even while removing it from meaningful public oversight, weakens our democracy.

The county's schools currently buy their back office function services, including finance, IT and HR, from LGSS — a public sector shared services organisation owned by both Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire county councils.

Children in poorly functioning public schools can use these scholarships to attend any private school (that sum will cover nearly all of the tuition at most Catholic schools), with a minimum commitment from the foundation of three years» worth of support.

Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.

Since when has information leaked from a «source» ever been considered to be confirmed?I don't doubt that MS will be implementing a similar function as Sony's, don't get me wrong, but you can state this as confirmed news when MS hasn't gone public with it, plain and simple.

In fact, according to Jim Duncan, executive director of the Colorado Library Consortium, the Chief Officers of State Library Associations has passed a resolution requesting that the word «public» be stripped from the name of the DPLA as that is not its function.

The primary function of a bank is to lend money and to accept deposits from the public.

Where public market investments rely on several financial organizations to perform various services from acquisition and development to offering diversified portfolios of REITs, Fundrise uses technology to consolidate these functions and reduce the number of intermediaries in the value chain.

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